The second police officer in the notorious “Rape Cop” case accused of acting as a lookout was sentenced this morning to 60 days in jail after a Manhattan judge called him “forever” a disgraced former member of the NYPD.

Franklin Mata, 28, will do time at Rikers Island and was slapped with three years probation — a decision that comes just two days after his partner Kenneth Moreno was given a year behind bars.

Mata, who will remain free pending a Sept. 12 appeal hearing, made a tearful plea before he was sentenced, saying, “I didn’t think that one night would end up costing me 2 1/2 years of my life and my career.”

Moreno and Mata had been acquitted of rape and burglary after they had made three caught-on-video return visits to the East Village apartment of an intoxicated young fashion executive.

Mata pleaded for no jail time, saying, “I never meant for anyone to get hurt that night.”

Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Gregory Carro, who had harsh words for Moreno at his sentencing, also let Mata have it.

Carro also declined his request for no jail time, saying Mata clearly “was not telling the full truth” when he testified

“For some reason you continued to carry your partner’s bags throughout the trial,” the judge said. “Your testimony clearly…it wasn’t wholly truthful.

“Maybe [Moreno’s] attorney was referring to you when he said ‘simpleton.’ Maybe you are the simpleton following the fox. I don’t hold you in the same light as your co-defendant.”

Added Carro, “Forever you will be a disgraced police officer.”

Carro said Mata “drew the short straw when you got [Moreno] as your partner.”

The judge said he took into account that Mata is a young man who became a cop for the right reasons and his future is now ruined because of Moreno’s actions. As for the lower sentence compared to Moreno, Carro said he was swayed by letters written in support of Mata.

On Monday, a second, higher-ranking judge ruled later in the day that Moreno, 43, can remain free pending appeal. Moreno had already taken a city correction bus to Rikers Island by the time the news reached him.

“He’s not going anywhere,” defense lawyer Chad Seigel told Manhattan Appellate Division Judge Nelson Roman, in arguing that Moreno — who has no prior record, perfect court attendance and who lives in Brooklyn with his parents, wife and two kids — should be sprung.

Moreno must also return to court Sept. 12 so a trial can be set for a small stash of seized heroin recovered from a police locker he had shared with another officer.

Moreno and Mata had been convicted in May of three counts each of official misconduct for their three return visits to the woman’s East Village apartment on a December night in 2008.

The woman was so intoxicated that the pair had been dispatched to help her out of a cab, and she had tearfully testified to jurors that Moreno raped her as she lay stripped and semi-conscious on her bed.

The judge especially took aim at Mata’s claim that he didn’t hear anything going on with his partner and the woman in her bedroom, even though he was on a couch right next to the very thin bedroom wall.